Over 30 members and guests attended today’s meeting to hear our Very Experienced Member, Past District Governor and Past President Dennis Shore talk about his career and life in Rotary. Guests included Lynda Shore, PDG Ian Knight OAM and Jenny Knight, and we were joined later in the meeting by Auburn High School Assistant Principal, Ross Pritchard, and two of his students.
MC Henry Drury’s introduction of Dennis as devoted husband, family man, bon vivant, talented writer, keen golfer, good bloke and captain 
of industry well and truly set the scene for Dennis’s talk which he titled ‘Crossroads of Wisdom’. It was clear from what followed that Dennis, when reaching the crossroad, took the right path. Dennis credited luck – both fortuitous and self-made – as a factor in his success, but it was clear that what Dennis has achieved was due most of all to talent, determined effort, making the most of opportunities and, not least, having Lynda’s encouragement and support. A full report on Dennis’s talk is later in the Bulletin.
of industry well and truly set the scene for Dennis’s talk which he titled ‘Crossroads of Wisdom’. It was clear from what followed that Dennis, when reaching the crossroad, took the right path. Dennis credited luck – both fortuitous and self-made – as a factor in his success, but it was clear that what Dennis has achieved was due most of all to talent, determined effort, making the most of opportunities and, not least, having Lynda’s encouragement and support. A full report on Dennis’s talk is later in the Bulletin.Later in the meeting Youth Service director, Geoff Wright, welcomed Assistant Principal, Ross Pritchard and two Auburn High School students. Ross thanked the Club for the various programs the Club supports at the school and the students spoke about their attendance at recent National Youth Science Forum and Santos Science Experience programs. See Geoff’s report later in the Bulletin.
Zoom Donations
Many thanks to those members and guests who generously donated to the Club’s charity funds when registering for this meeting. Donations for this week totalled $295 which brings our total Club meeting donations for February to $965.
Back to Kooyong!
The Board has reviewed the current Covid situation and considers that Covid case numbers have fallen sufficiently since the high levels in January and early February to warrant the resumption of Club meetings at Kooyong from next week, Tuesday 1 March. We are all looking forward to getting together face-to-face for the first time since the Christmas Dinner on 16 December.
President’s Drinks Party
The President’s Drinks Party will be held on Sunday 6 March from 4.00pm to 6.00 pm. Bookings can be made via the invitation on the website homepage. If you are planning to attend and haven’t yet booked, please do so as soon as possible.
International Women’s Day Breakfast
A reminder also that the Club’s International Women’s Day Breakfast will be held on is on Tuesday 8 March at Kooyong. Bookings are open in TryBookings via the following link:
Please book as soon as possible.
David Corrigan lunch
Another event not to be missed is the lunch in honour of David Corrigan at Kooyong on Tuesday 15 March. Come and hear Dennis Shore and David Rush talk about David Corrigan’s long and distinguished contribution to Rotary and our Club. Invitations for the lunch will be sent out shortly.
Lift the Lid Charity Golf Day
The Rotary Club of Glenferrie is holding a Golf Day in aid of Australian Rotary Health at Kingston Health Golf Club on Tuesday 24 May. Details are in the flyer published in last week’s Bulletin and republished this week. This is an opportunity, particularly for our keen golfers, to support the fundraising efforts of one of our Cluster clubs.
For information and bookings go to: https://events.humanitix.com/rotarygolf2022
RAT kits for Camcare
The 90 Rapid Antigen Test kits we purchased through District 9800 for Camcare were collected from DIK on Friday and delivered to Camcare. The donated kits were funded by the Survey Street Trust.
A reminder that I am holding a further 10 kits for emergency use by members, so if anyone or a family member is caught without a kit and needs to do a test at short notice please contact me.
Until next week, have a pleasant week and above all keep safe and well.
President Andrew
Thought for the Week
I think this quote of Vietnamese spiritual leader, teacher and activist Thich Nhat Hanh is particularly apposite given the current situation in Ukraine and elsewhere.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
Born in in 1926, Thich Nhat Hanh became a novice monk at the age of 16 and in 1961 travelled to the US to study comparative religion and teach Buddhism at Columbia University. In the early 1960s he founded a relief organization in Saigon and published an influential peace activist magazine. In 1966 he went to the U.S. and Europe to make the case for peace and to call for an end to hostilities in Vietnam. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967 and later established a network of mindfulness practice centres around the world. He was described by Martin Luther King Jr as an apostle of peace and nonviolence. He died in January this year.